Quality of service

By identifying problems with your electricity supply, your backup systems can automatically go into operation to avoid the economic impact of a service outage, and you can also file claims for damage to your installation.

Poor voltage quality supplied by the electric company can directly affect the proper operation of your installation. One of the most relevant aspects to assess is the voltage level delivered, as this directly affects the continuity of the service you offer your customers. A power outage can force you to shut down your service, generating considerable financial losses for your business.

Electronic equipment installed in transmission stations or data centres is a source of harmonics. Installing active filters eliminates harmful effects, such as outages in computer systems or protective device trips caused by a high harmonic presence, avoiding indirect costs due to service outages.

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Power quality

Analyze the power quality of your installation

Record the quality of the power supplied by the electric company and detect any incidents related to the voltage level supplied to ensure the proper operation of your installation, as per the IEC 61000-4-30 and EN 50160 standards.

Power quality analyzers
Consumption quality

Avoid the problems caused by harmonics

Reduce the presence of harmonics in your installation by installing active filters, and prevent service outages or any problems involving your IT systems, thus enhancing the efficiency of your facility

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Power quality

Records any incidents in the electric supply

By installing power quality analyzers, you can identify sporadic voltage quality events, as defined in IEC 61000-4-30, such as overvoltages, dips or interruptions. This way, you can quantify the type of event, its duration and severity in order to install systems that can mitigate or eliminate its impact on your service, as well as file claims with insurance companies for any damage caused by poor power quality.

Once installed, you will be able to prepare statistical reports, normally based on the EN 50160 quality standard, to ensure that the quality of the waveform supplied by the electric company complies with the minimum legal requirements. This way, you can be sure that the electric supply will always meet the quality standards, and not affect the performance of the installation.

Circutor has a wide range of both fixed and portable power quality analyzers for detecting and recording power quality and transient events.

You can use this information to draw conclusions on the quality of the voltage in your installation and mitigate its impact or solve any problems resulting from poor power quality.

Power quality analyzers

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EN-50160

By installing power quality analyzers, you can prepare statistical reports, normally based on the EN 50160 quality standard, to ensure that the quality of the waveform supplied by the electric company complies with the minimum requirements. This way, you can be sure that the electric supply will always meet the quality standards, and not affect the performance of the installation.

IEC 61000-4-30

By installing power quality analyzers, you can identify sporadic quality events, as defined in IEC 61000-4-30, such as overvoltages, dips or interruptions, and quantify the type of event and its duration. You can use these devices to implement solutions that can mitigate the impact of poor power quality on production, as well as file claims with insurance companies for any associated damage.

Consumption quality

Prevent service interruptions caused by harmonics

Computer equipment and LED lighting have electronics that work by converting AC current into DC. These loads use the electric grid itself to absorb non-sinusoidal currents, generating harmonics that cause a series of problems in the facility.

The most common effects they produce are errors in the signals from telecommunications equipment, electronic resets that lead to service outages, protective device trips, and conductor overheating and deterioration. All of these effects greatly increase the infrastructure’s operating costs, which can be avoided by installing active filters that eliminate the effects caused by harmonics.

This type of technology uses power electronics to inject currents upstream of the installation that are out of phase with the various harmonics that are measured in real time, thus mitigating their effects.

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